One of the women grabbed the man as the other sprayed liquid on his face and held a cloth over it for about 10 seconds.

In the hullaballoo of the check-in area, no one even seemed to
notice. This account of the attack and its aftermath was pieced together
from interviews with staff at the airport, police and other official
statements, and leaks to the local media.

The women left swiftly, but not that swiftly. They went down three
sets of escalators, past an H&M and a Baskin-Robbins, and out of the
terminal to a taxi stand, where they needed to buy a voucher for their
journey before lining up for a cab. They got in and told the driver to
take them to the Empire Hotel, some 40 minutes from the airport.

Where are you from, the driver asked. Vietnam, the women responded.

Inside the terminal, Kim Jong Nam, feeling dizzy and apparently
unable to see, stumbled to one of the counters to seek help. He was
taken to a medical clinic inside the terminal, where he had a mild
seizure, then was loaded into an ambulance.

He died on the way to the hospital, after telling medical workers at
the airport that he had been sprayed with a chemical, said two senior
Malaysian government officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity
because of the sensitive diplomatic issues involved.

Malaysian authorities on Thursday announced the second and third
arrests in the death of the North Korean leader’s half brother, whose
apparent assassination this week unleashed tales of spectacular
intrigue.

The three suspects — two women and a man — were picked up separately
Wednesday and early Thursday. The women were identified using
closed-circuit TV footage.

Just after 8 a.m. on Wednesday morning, one of the women was arrested
at the airport – in the same terminal where the attack took place – and
positively identified as one of the suspects. She was traveling on a
Vietnamese passport identifying her as 29-year-old Doan Thi Hoang,
police said.

North Koreans have been caught traveling on Southeast Asian passports
before, making it entirely possible that the woman is, in fact, North
Korean.

Police said that she was traveling alone and had told them she was
tricked into the attack, which she had been told was just a prank.

The other woman held an Indonesian passport and was arrested early Thursday.

Apparently, the North Koreans tried stopping the autopsy. Perhaps they were worried that the truth would upset a fictional narrative that Kim Jong-Nam committed suicide in a public place by spraying poison on his face the way he always talked about doing.

A suicide bomber attacked a crowded Sufi
shrine in southern Pakistan on Thursday, killing at least 72 people and
wounding dozens more in the deadliest of a wave of bombings across the
South Asian nation this week.

A spokesman for medical charity Edhi said the attacker appeared
to have targeted the women's wing of the shrine, and around 30 children
accompanying their mothers were dead.

According
to supplementary estimates tabled Tuesday in the House of Commons, the
federal government is giving the Canada Border Services Agency an
additional $85.5 million.

"The
agency is facing operational pressures due to changing volumes across
business lines, growth in international commerce and the threats of
terrorism and organized crime," the government wrote in the documents.

"This
funding will be used to maintain service levels for wait times and
inspection rates at major points of entry and to improve the capacity
for export control over high-risk goods leaving Canada."

The CBSA will also get another $32.4 million in funding "for integrity of Canada's border operations."

News
of the federal government's additional border-related spending comes as
the election of Trump is focusing more attention on the fight against
terrorism and border security.

The
federal government is facing mounting pressure, including from within
the Liberal caucus, to change the name of the building that houses the
Prime Minister's Office — the Langevin Block, located across the street
from Parliament Hill.

The
building is named after Hector-Louis Langevin, a politician and father
of Confederation who also happens to have expressed strong support for
establishing what would become the infamous, government-run residential
school program.

That
particular detail is a problem for indigenous leaders
including Assembly of First Nations National Chief Perry Bellegarde,
who raised his concerns in a letter to the government obtained by The
Canadian Press.

Bellegarde
wants the government to find a new name for the building in
consultation with indigenous peoples, something he says aboriginal
communities would take as a sign of good faith.

In that case, I would like an enormous plaque indicating that Pierre Elliot Trudeau admired both the Nazis and the communists.

Millions of dollars worth of tomatoes rotted in Southwestern Ontario
fields last year when a Maidstone canning company — with plans to build a
new state-of-the-art plant — didn’t take all the tomatoes it had
contracted growers to deliver.

“The helpless feeling of watching a good crop rot, just rot, is hard
to put into words,” Leamington farmer David Epp said Wednesday of what
looked in late summer like it would be a bumper tomato harvest.

Thomas Canning (Maidstone) Ltd., ended up not taking about 75 per
cent of the tomatoes it contracted farmers to grow because it wouldn’t
schedule enough deliveries of the crop, according to the Ontario
Processing Vegetable Growers.

A lot of the crop ripened at once and there were delays in installing
new equipment to process the tomatoes into a more concentrated paste at
the current Thomas Canning plant, CEO Bill Thomas said.The new equipment was finally in place in October, near the end of
the tomato season. Once the plant fell behind it was difficult to catch
up, Thomas said.

“We had some equipment challenges, too, with some new installations
which caused some delays and we take responsibility for that,” he said.
“All I can say beyond that is we’re taking care of the growers and that
is currently being resolved.”

Thomas said he’s arranging a meeting with the growers next week on
compensating them for the tomatoes that the plant couldn’t process.

Unhappy with an anti-Islamophobia motion proposed by a Liberal MP,
the federal Conservatives tabled their own motion Thursday which, while
referencing the “senseless violent attacks” on the Quebec mosque last
month, avoids any reference of Islamophobia even as it condemns all
forms of religious intolerance and racism.

The Conservative motion, tabled Thursday morning in the House of
Commons by Saskatchewan MP David Anderson, is the latest in what has
escalated into a political culture war between Conservatives and
Liberals.

On the one hand, Liberals, with the support of many New Democrats,
accused some Conservatives, particularly several running for that
party’s leadership, of intolerance and bigotry.

The Conservatives, for their part, argue that while anti-Muslim
sentiment is a problem, so, too is it a problem that other faith
communities, including Christians and Jews, are under threat.

Thursday’s debate comes the night after a separate debate on what is
known as M-103, a parliamentary motion put forward by Liberal MP Iqrad
Khalid which, among other things, called on the House to “condemn
Islamophobia and all forms of systemic racism and religious
discrimination.”

Anderson’s motion, on the other hand, asks the House to “condemn all
forms of systemic racism, religious intolerance, and discrimination of
Muslims, Jews, Christians, Sikhs, Hindus, and other religious
communities.”

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau
praised the European Union on Thursday as an unprecedented model for
peaceful cooperation, in a speech to EU lawmakers that contrasted
sharply with the critical stance of U.S. President Donald Trump.

Brussels simply went too far. They crossed the line after moving from an
economic union to a political subordinate of Europe. Now, six more
countries want to hold referendums to exit the EU; France, the
Netherlands, Italy, Austria, Finland, and Hungary all could leave.

Turkey has increased scrutiny of
Russian-speaking Muslim communities in the past few months following a
series of attacks blamed on Islamic State, a concrete example of the
renewed relationship between the two countries.

Turkish police have raided the homes of Russian-speaking
immigrants in Istanbul, detained many and expelled others, according to
interviews with Russian Muslims living in the city. At least some of
those targeted by Turkish authorities are known to be sympathetic to
radical Islamist movements.

The security activity indicates that Russia and Turkey are
sharing intelligence, part of a newly-forged alliance that has also seen
Moscow and Ankara work together on a peace deal for Syria.

The cooperation comes as a resurgent Russia, already active in
Ukraine and keen to boost its diplomatic influence in the Middle East,
has been playing a greater role in Syria in the vacuum left by the
United States under Barack Obama.

With its show of military force, Russia
changed the tide of the Syrian civil war. It is finding the next phase
-- brokering an end to the fighting -- a tougher proposition.

A round of Syria peace talks sponsored by Russia ended on
Thursday with no joint communique, usually the minimum outcome of any
diplomatic negotiation, and saw opposing Syrian groups exchanging angry
tirades at each other and the brokers.

With no concrete progress to report, media representatives at
the talks venue in ex-Soviet Kazakhstan, were so hungry for a scrap of
news that at one point a crowd formed around an Arabic speaker who they
thought was a participant in the talks. He turned out to be another
journalist.

Western diplomats, who say Russian President Vladimir Putin's
campaign of air strikes has worsened the conflict, have, in private,
reacted to Russia's tribulations as a peacemaker with variations on the
phrase: "We told you so."

... says a region of the world that let incompetent people like Obama and their red lines make things worse.

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or
prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of
speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to
assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.

The Washington Supreme Court ruled unanimously Thursday that a
florist who refused to provide services for a same-sex wedding broke the
state's anti-discrimination law, even though she claimed doing so would
violate her religious beliefs.

A lower court had
fined Barronelle Stutzman, a florist in Richland, Washington, for
denying service to a gay couple in 2013, and ordered her to pay a $1,000
fine.

Stutzman argued that she was exercising her First
Amendment rights. But the court held that her floral arrangements do not
constitute protected free speech, and that providing flowers to a
same-sex wedding would not serve as an endorsement of same-sex marriage."As
Stutzman acknowledged at deposition, providing flowers for a wedding
between Muslims would not necessarily constitute an endorsement of
Islam, nor would providing flowers for an atheist couple endorse
atheism," the opinion said.Stutzman's lawyers immediately said they would ask the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn the decision.

Is the court's decision an endorsement for frivolous though lucrative lawsuits?

“My
reaction was surprise,” Graham says of learning that the ads had
appeared. “We want our display ads and our ad dollars go to sites that
are compatible with our values, and we feel that’s not a site that’s
compatible with our values.

“Our
customers know what our values are, and it was great to get that alert
so we could move quickly,” he says. “We’re a data- and fact-driven
company. About one third of employees were not born in Canada. We’re a
diverse and inclusive company.”

That last statement presumes that others are not "diverse". It's the sort of hypocritical, virtue-signalling hypocrisy that would not stand up to scrutiny.

So remove one's company from the site if one wishes. I'm sure it won't be missed by the diverse readership you claim does not exist.

Call it Byzantium, Constantinople or modern Istanbul, Turkey’s
largest metropolis has always been a city of cats. “Cats have lived in
what is now Istanbul for thousands of years,” according to the opening
titles of the documentary Kedi (Turkish for cat). “They have seen
empires rise and fall, and the city shrink and grow.”

And they’re decidedly unruffled by it all. In Ceyda Torun’s
beautifully shot, feline-friendly film, most of the city’s cats live to
eat, sleep and occasionally beg. And while there must be some
hard-hearted types who dislike their presence, every Turk the director
finds has something nice to say about them.